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rastignack··on Python’s new t-strings
Quite easy to detect with a proper linter.
rastignack··on Things Zig comptime won't do
Lifetimes and generic tend to leak so you have to modify your code all around the place when you touch them though.
rastignack··on Things Zig comptime won't do
Compile times and painful to refactor codebase are rust’s main drawbacks for me though.

It’s totally subjective but I find the language boring to use. For side projects I like having fun thus I picked zig.

To each his own of course.

rastignack··on AWS announces 85% price reductions for S3 Express One Zone
I guess it was seldom used. There are some pricing anomalies all over aws offering.

I recently tried to use their IPAM and was amazed by the outrageous cost.

rastignack··on Bash-ini-parser: Advanced bash INI parser library
Hint: for cicd usage you can parse ini files with git, often present in such situations.
rastignack··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
Do you have a more precise exemple of a state in which it is that difficult ? And a source ? I really find it hard to believe.
rastignack··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
As a EU citizen, I think this voter ID argument is absolutely insane.
rastignack··on The DuckDB Local UI
Some people work in serious work environments, on heavily regulated data. Thanks for another software landmine !

Make it opt-in, or not installed by default please, it’s so hazardous.

rastignack··on The DuckDB Local UI
And so the malware-izarion of duckdb begins. Investors need revenue I guess.
rastignack··on Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI
I don’t think we need to lie or be disingenuous about this gesture, Elon is not known for his hate of Jewish people. I think this obviously fake take helps him.

There is enough to criticize in his actions.

rastignack··on DOGE employees ordered to stop using Slack
Then, the president is acting illegally, and not doge ?
rastignack··on Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig
> The async featureset in Rust is far from complete, but async is also somewhat of a niche. You're not necessarily expected to use it, often you can just use threads.

I’m sorry but it’s not true. You lose access to most of the ecosystem.

rastignack··on A UC Santa Cruz professor unearthed the oldest alphabet yet
Who knows what will happen in Syria in the next decades. We need to document as much as we can, while we can.
rastignack··on Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza
You don’t resist by filming yourself slaughtering children under captagon. Please see what French resistance was. Hamas and its apologetics are terrorists. And barbarians
rastignack··on Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza
> Filistine and Jerusalem did not have a problem with antisemitism and jew hate, UNTIL european settlers showed up. Antisemitism is purely european concept imported into Middle East.

Read about the granada massacre.

rastignack··on Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza
> undermining democratic structures

Democratic structures like fatah and hamas ?

rastignack··on Zig's comptime is bonkers good
> Bun isn't going to be the killer project that triggers a Rewrite in Zig movement.

It might be enough to make the zig ecosystem viable. This along with tiger beetle (they have raised tens of millions).

I think a lot of time is spent right now on the tooling, I hope that in a near feature the zig team will be able to switch to the event loop / standard library topics which really need love.

rastignack··on My negative views on Rust (2023)
> Most devs are lazy, and would rather sweep complexity under the rug and pretend it doesn't exist until it becomes a real problem they can't ignore anymore

You mean pragmatic. Not all of us are memory absolutists. The time ideally invested in memory management really depends on the problem space, the deadlines, etc.

rastignack··on Git Bash is my preferred Windows shell
> Powershell on Windows is great because there’s a module for everything. I’d rather parse structured data.

It’s also really slow for text processing, borderline unusable

rastignack··on Just use Postgres
My point is that you can handle a billion of rows on a single PostgreSQL instance.
rastignack··on The Deno Standard Library
Meanwhile terraform prometheus grafana…
rastignack··on Just use Postgres
> This is exactly a great point. When data size goes to a billion rows, Postgres is tough. MongoDB just works without issue.

Is it though ? Maybe 5-10 years ago it was.

rastignack··on Ask HN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now?
I have the same memories, trying to convince people to dump slow as hell sparc processors for database workloads in favor of X86 machines costing a 10th of the price.

To this day I still argue with ex Solaris sysadmins.

rastignack··on Koheesio: Nike's Python-based framework to build advanced data-pipelines
Yes we loved when you pulled the rug and made everything « premium ».

I’m not against proprietary software, but your website still advertises this product as an open source ELT.

rastignack··on LLM leaderboard focusing on assessing their biases
No problem with this question. The one about picking your restroom according to your feels is problematic as the father of a young daughter though.
rastignack··on LLM leaderboard focusing on assessing their biases
It’s dishonest because most of them expect a black or white answer which would not be true. No nuance it’s just a test for political correctness.
rastignack··on LLM leaderboard focusing on assessing their biases
Here are the (heavily biased and dishonest) prompts:

https://github.com/SOM-Research/LangBiTe/blob/main/langbite/...

rastignack··on Paris preserves its mixed society by pouring billions into public housing
Also, VAT
rastignack··on Paris preserves its mixed society by pouring billions into public housing
Don’t worry I’m upper middle class and roughly 75% of my salary goes straight to taxes while everything that’s state provided (schools, hospitals, security, infrastructure) just collapses.
rastignack··on 1.1B Taxi Rides Benchmark Using DuckDB
I’m having the same issues, where I need to load json files one by one instead of loading them in a batch. It looks like memory is not freed as soon as the file is parsed.

Edit: setting threads to a low value as read in this thread solved my issue.

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